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Upland hunting January in Kansas #7641306
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Talking about going to Kansas in January to try to find some Bobwhite and Pheasants. Anyone hunt or live or have information in the South Central area south of Hays?


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Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: Don] #7641332
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I would get as far North as you can. Definitely not the quantity of birds like the Dakotas have but they are around. If you can get there on one of the first snows it is FUN!

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Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: Don] #7641538
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DO you find Quail in the northern part of Kansas?


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Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: Don] #7641545
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Have quail in a few small pockets.


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Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: Don] #7641548
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Fair hatch of quail in my area this summer

Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: Don] #7641553
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Haven't hunted quail in quite a few years but the last several I've been seeing a lot more. Can't hardly drive a mile on a country road here without jumping a pair. Starting to see a few broods the last couple of weeks. I'd stay south central if your wanting quail. But like I said I haven't hunted birds for quite a few years. The pheasant population has seemed really good in NW Ks were I deer hunt the last couple of years.

Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: Don] #7641558
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I live in north North Central Kansas. Our quail population seems really good this year. Pheasant is slim pickins.


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Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: Don] #7641566
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Thanks for the replies so far


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Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: Don] #7641603
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We don't hunt quail much around here anymore, I'm sure there are more than one thinks, but they seem scarce. I have been seeing more the last few years though, but A LOT of leased land in these parts, hard to find places to hunt at times. East central KS


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Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: danny clifton] #7641622
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Originally Posted by danny clifton
Have quail in a few small pockets.


Many pheasants in your neck of the woods, Danny?


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Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: Don] #7641626
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say no. I live south and west of Danny, and we have zero.


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Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: Don] #7641675
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I live in NE and used to have quite a few pheasants, but they have gotten scarce in the last five years. Quail have picked up a little the last few years, but are nothing like they were in my younger days. I'm afraid you would have to hunt very hard to get your limit!


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Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: lee steinmeyer] #7641685
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western KS--- which would include Hays-- check map---- has virtually zero pheasants anymore and very few quail. 2010-14 drought kept hatches from surviving and the ding dongs at KDWP kept a season on them anyway---- This drought likewise--- not much of a hatch survived-------- South Dakota is the place to hunt pheasants.

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I was talking to some guys and they said we're on our 4th hatch of pheasants this year, the bounty on nest predators and Covid really helped the birds.

Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: Don] #7641695
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I used to turkey hunt North Central Kansas and certain WIHA’s were quail central. They held more quail than turkeys. I honestly jumped 17 pairs walking one section. That was quite a few years ago, but the habitat should still be the same.

Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: Don] #7641755
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none ang. no quail either. never been pheasants. we used to have prairie chickens, quail, rabbits, big bull frogs and muskrats. all gone. meadow larks are getting mighty scarce now


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Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: Yes sir] #7641853
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Originally Posted by Don
DO you find Quail in the northern part of Kansas?

Not as many quail there as there are pheasants from my experiences there but I do not live there.

I'd say there are definitely better places to go for upland than Kansas, but if I had to pick a place to go in Kansas it would be here
Originally Posted by Yes sir
The pheasant population has seemed really good in NW Ks were I deer hunt the last couple of years.


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Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: TheYouthTrapper] #7641901
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Originally Posted by TheYouthTrapper
I was talking to some guys and they said we're on our 4th hatch of pheasants this year, the bounty on nest predators and Covid really helped the birds.

It's physically impossible for pheasants to raise more than one brood each year. If they loose their eggs, they may re nest, but lay less eggs, and have a lower hatch rate if they do.


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Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: MJM] #7641905
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Originally Posted by MJM
Originally Posted by TheYouthTrapper
I was talking to some guys and they said we're on our 4th hatch of pheasants this year, the bounty on nest predators and Covid really helped the birds.

It's physically impossible for pheasants to raise more than one brood each year. If they loose their eggs, they may re nest, but lay less eggs, and have a lower hatch rate if they do.

That sounded suspicious to me too, Mark. But then, I'm a trapper and all I know about phesants is that they taste good! grin


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Re: Upland hunting January in Kansas [Re: lee steinmeyer] #7641918
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Originally Posted by lee steinmeyer
That sounded suspicious to me too, Mark. But then, I'm a trapper and all I know about pheasants is that they taste good! grin[/quote]
I learned a little about ground nesting birds and waterfowl trapping for Delta Waterfowl. Here they say the Canada geese are on their second or third brood. It does not happen.


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